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The plot of this week is mainly in a place – where Jinya finds the temple where he becomes the baby of his adopted daughter – but satisfactorily advances the story. It’s not visually impressive or diverse, just a standard dark rain night that works like a radio drama. (My favorite visual style is not in the temple, but outside Kyoto, when Tsuchiura and Jinya face a rematch; Tsuchiura Hulks comes out and his instant growth Horn knocks on his straw hat.) However, this episode can convey its main idea well, and even if he resigns, he never changes his fundamentality, a self-conscious protagonist.
The majority of this episode is about the heart-to-heart other between Jinya and Demon ofu, who convinces her old friend to be more open than ever and realizes that what drives him is ambivalent and unreasonable, besides death. (This episode missed a trick, though, because it didn’t take us back to Episode 17, which made the idea perfectly imagine, while Jinya smiled fanatically in his pool of blood.)
However, she just congratulated him on his humanity, rather than suggesting that OFU “solved” Jinya’s contradictions naturally. She and we both compared him to her very human father Hyoma, which surprised him and us, who passed away last week, reflecting that his choices were wrong in any rational sense, but still benefit, but they are OFU himself.
Moving forward to the people Jinya saved: Nomari and Miura, both of whom can emerge beyond his demons. Jinya was adorable at seeing them, but what was really heart-wrenching was when he found himself stroking his daughter’s hair as usual. It may be a demon-sized hand now, but it is still the same hand.
The episode also provides time for Tsuchiura, which includes flashbacks, suggesting that he, like Jinya, may have begun human life. We learn that he was previously apprenticed by Swordsmith Kameone and his (devil) wife (which had been a background presence this season), and Tsuchiura once loved (possibly) human women, although the framework shows that it wasn’t very good.
We will get more details next week as Tsuchiura and Jinya continue to play a rematch in the rain. I hope Tsuchiura will stand out from the next episode and he is Sumo Wrestler or the best shelf stacker in the world today.
grade:
Demon Hunter’s Sword Currently flowing
Hidive.
